[tbb-bugs] #25660 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Remove "New Private Window" option from Tor Browser or make it a separate session

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#25660: Remove "New Private Window" option from Tor Browser or make it a separate
session
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 Reporter:  steph                     |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  Medium                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:  wontfix
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Changes (by gk):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:2 steph]:
 > That sounds like a "New Window" and not a "New Private Window." In other
 browsers, the Private Window is the one with the not-actually-private
 Private Browsing mode, which doesn't apply in Tor Browser.

 I don't think so. We are starting in private browsing mode and I as a user
 want to have a private window as well and not just some window, if I think
 I want to use an additional window. So, we should make the messaging
 pretty clear (as a vanilla Firefox does when started in "Always private
 browsing mode"). I think Mozilla got that part right. And, no, in Tor
 Browser we use a lot of the things the vanilla Private Browsing Mode
 provides against disk leaks, so it applies in Tor Browser. We "just" add
 the network level bits that other browser vendors did not take into
 account yet.

 So, I think this is actually a wont't fix.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25660#comment:6>
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